Brian Brown, President of the National Organization for Marriage, recently flew to Seattle to visit gay-rights activist Dan Savage.

That probably sounds surprising, considering Brown’s outspokenness about how gay marriage is detrimental to the fabric of Christianity and society. But the meeting was prompted by a challenge Brown leveled at Savage earlier this year:

Women are moving up in the world, and so is Seattle. OK, so Melinda Gates technically lives in Medina. But with the new Gates Foundation headquarters near the Space Needle, she sure spends a lot of time in this city. …

Sad that “The Office” is ending after this coming season? It might make you feel better to know that NBC is moving forward with plans to make a spin-off show based on the life of Dwight Schrute, the oddball beet farmer who daylights as a salesman for the paper company.

Schrute is portrayed by former Seattleite Rainn Wilson, which makes the show of particular interest to us. Besides, of course, that Wilson’s portrayal of the socially awkward malcontent is pretty hilarious.

Hold on to your newly-sculpted mohawks, everyone. NASA’s ‘Mohawk Guy,” formerly known as Bobak Ferdowsi, is coming to Seattle.(If you don’t know who he is, you probably didn’t watch the Mars landing earlier this month.) …

Anyone else out there impressed by the magical fundraising abilities of The Oatmeal’s Matthew Inman? The man is a money-raising machine, today surpassing his $850,000 goal to buy a the former laboratory of slighted scientist Nikola Tesla.

Inman, the snarky cartoonist behind the popular web comic, has a soft spot for “the greatest geek who ever lived,” and recently put his celebrity to work for the Tesla Science Center, an organization trying to purchase the inventor’s old laboratory to use as a museum.